Name: Kyoko Nekozawa

Age: 313 but looks 17

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7"

Weight: 110-120 lbs

Clothes: In her normal Shinigami state she wears a gray tank top under a leather jacket with the left sleeve ripped off, a white sash wrapped around her waist, a pair of black leather pants, black high heeled boots, and a collar with a large silver bell on it. She keeps her zanpakuto on her back like Hiyori's.
In her Gigai, she wears a black short sleeved tee shirt with a silver star on the front with a white long sleeve tee shirt under it, a pair of olive(or khaki) colored cargo pants, a pair of black and white skater shoes, and her collar.


General Appearance: She has short almost platinum blond hair that comes to her chin and always flips out from her face at the very ends with bangs that go straight all the way across that are always ruffled and out of order. Her hair can be described as 'shaggy even when styled'. She has big pale blue eyes that are shaped similar to cat eyes with shimmering silver specks in them. She has a patch of bright freckles under each eye and thin but dark (for a blond) eyebrows that are very expressive.
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Strengths: Kyoko is fast an agile. She's flexible and catlike in her movements, making her hard to hit and even harder to catch. She is very talented with the Kusarigama and is getting very good with Sai. She's also pretty good at accuracy and thus, is good with throwing knives (no NOT kunai).

Weaknesses: Kyoko has little upper body strength and thus can be easily over powered. She also doesn't focus much on defending but rather dodges everything. She's a fist fighter by nature and while she can used some ranged weapons, they're limited range so someone with a bow, or some other really long ranged weapon would have her completely outgunned.

Personality: Kyoko is fun loving and mischievous. Thus anything that keeps her from doing what she wants usually befalls some sort of 'accident' though never beyond the scope of a harmless prank (ie. a mountain of paperwork suddenly disappearing w/o a trace). She's stubborn and spiteful but when push comes to shove, there's no one that would be a better ally to have. She dislikes most things girly and frilly so she doesn't get along with most members of the same gender. She loves a good brawl and will often try to pick a fight with her superiors because 'it's more fun when it's a hard fight to win'. As far as romance goes she's really too busy being one of the guys to pay much attention to them. She's also a bit dense and shy when she likes someone. And in extreme cases, she may bully the object of her affection due to pure and innocent naivete.
Sometimes, Noir will overpower her when she's in the heat of the fight, then she becomes a ruthless bloodthirsty beast. It's not that she becomes any more powerful then normal just her reiatsu will surge momentarily and then wane again quickly. So if her opponent can survive the initial burst of reiatsu then she soon becomes near helpless (though surviving the initial burst is easier said then done).

History: Kyoko lived for as long as she could remember in the 77th district of Rukongai. She was raised by a man she knew as her brother though she didn't know if they were actually related or not. His name was Damuki. Kyoko was fairly normal in her younger years, a bit mischevious. It wasn't until she was roughly... 12-13 years old that she developed her strange obsession with fist fights. It was sparked from the fact that she was often bullied for being so small. She retaliated and fell in love with the act of brawling. So she began to look for fights where ever they would go. Damuki, being interested in the medical field, would patch up all her victims (and of course her own injuries). The two often fought about Kyoko's lifestyle, as Damuki thought she could do so much better.

It wasn't long before Kyoko started blacking out in the middle of fights, often when she seemed to be cornered or having a rough time. When she came to, all the other combatants were dead or too close to it to save. And all were mauled beyond recognition. She was too afraid to tell Damuki about it, afraid he'd use it to put an end to her fighting once and for all.

One night, they had a fight, as they normally did. When she woke the next morning she was horrified at what she found. Beside her, where her brother should have been sleeping, was a pile of flesh and bone ripped and mangled worse then any of her previous opponents had ever been. The horrified expression on his untouched face haunts her on to this day.

She entered the academy the next day, hoping to learn to control whatever it was inside of her that was doing all this. She finally managed to subdue Noir, by locking her in chains made of Kyoko's reiatsu. When she first entered the academy she was quiet and withdrawn. But she slowly began to come out of her shell and regained her normal talkative, hyperactive personality. However, the experience left her scarred so that underneath her happy-go-lucky demeanor, she's horrified to let anyone too close to her.

Division: 11th Division

Rank/Seat: Lieutenant

Zanpakuto: Noir

Sealed Form: When sealed, Noir is a silver full length katana with a black and silver hilt with a rectangular hand-guard with the shape of four cat heads in it.

Shikai Information: 'Shriek into the Endless Night, Noir' Kyoko holds her blade parallel with the ground, holding it in her left hand, bracing with her right. From the handguard of the katana swirls of black energy wrap around the blade and hilt of the sword. When they've completely surrounded the sword they connect and transform it into a black claymore that looks like a piece of the night sky that's been cut out in the shape of a blade. When the transformation is complete, Kyoko spins the blade and stabs it into the ground. From the place where the ground is pierced in a 50ft radius a dome of black covered in stars is formed. Kyoko then disappears into the darkness. The stars are made of her own reiatsu which mixed with Noir's thus, masking her movements. She comes out of the darkness and attacks before disappearing again.

Zanpakuto's Spirit: Noir is a sadistic, cruel, ruthless, bloodthirsty, and hateful. She is the epitome of all the negative emotions that Kyoko suppresses naturally. She is the embodiment of Kyoko's nightmares. But at the same time, she protects Kyoko from any harm that might befall her. She has black hair in ringlet pigtails with a crescent moon clip in it just next to the left pig tail. She has completely straight bangs with side burns that come to her shoulders. Her eyes are bright yellow and have pitch black eyeliner and purple eyeshadow. She has cat ears and a fluffy tail. She wears a white tube top, a long sleeved fishnet shirt, black arm-warmers with silver ribbon things wrapped around them making them looked striped, a black almost demonic looking sash wrapped around her hips like a skirt, fishnet stockings, big gothic boots, and a studded collar.
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Zanpakuto's Element: Noir is a physical/ Kidou type. Her Element is Darkness or to be more specific: Nightmares.

Bankai: Akuma no You na Hime Noir or Nightmare Princess Noir
Kyoko's bankai has a seperate release command:'Throw Open the Doors to the Citadel of Nightmares, Nightmare Princess Noir!'

When her bankai is initiated, Kyoko's appearance changes dramatically. Her hair turns pitch black with white bangs. She grows black cat ears and a black tail. Her clothes change from her normal attire to a white midriff tank top under a long sleeved mesh top, a pair of black jeans, black fingerless gloves, a black demonic looking scarf that covers her mouth and nose, and white bandages wrapped around her feet. She gains a silver Kusarigama or chain scythe with a shorter then normal handle, which, when she's using the scythe for attacking, she keeps wrapped around her left arm. Her ability in bankai is called 'Nightmare Citadel' or 'Akuma no You na Jixyousai'
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In the ability, whoever is within a 50 feet radius is wrapped one of four nightmare worlds that are born from Kyoko's mind. These worlds are as follow:

War-- A world of blacks and shades of red, screams and bloody corpses fill the world of War. Bombshells can be heard exploding and the earth quakes with the shock of blasts from an unseen foe, and any within the world are subject to the flying rounds of deadly force which may fall astray. A ruined post-apocalyptic city of crumbled skyscrapers, crushed cars, burning buildings and broken streets from which lava will erupt violently and without warning. The beasts that lurk in this world are the most savage and aggressive. They will attack anyone or anything that moves with ferocity and blood-lust. Noir is a frequent visitor to this world, as it embodies everything she lusts for.

Death-- A world of shadows and whispers, of a darkness without time fill the world of death. A rocky canyon with spiked cliffs jutting out overhead and blackened trees clawing for a chance at the cloudy sky. The canyon walls seem to reach up like claws, the gray stone cold and hard as the truth of the world itself. The canyon stretches on into infinity in an endless winding dirt road from which there is no escape until one person's life is ended. Then the other may leave. The creatures of this world are the most silent and strategic. They move like shadows and prefer to pick off the weak. They often take their prey without ever leaving the shadows of the canyon walls.

Pestilence-- A world of slimy greens and blacks, the world of pestilence is probably the least pleasant of the four. A bog of thick pale green slime where the air is thick with the putrid stench of rotting corpses and the disgusting bile which surrounds one. The air is hard to breath and can choke a person with any kind of weakness of lungs. Corpses can be seen rotting in disgusting fashion all around, only adding to the disgusting atmosphere. The creatures that reside within this world are as disgusting as the world itself and much more deadly. They will lurk in the background and wait for the right opportunity to attack. Then they are relentless in their pursuit.

Famine-- A barren wasteland of a world where the cracked and broken ground is grayish yellow as though it were sand mixed with ash. Where the sky over head is full of orange clouds that are constantly filled with lightning which will occasionally find it's way to the ground near anyone in the world. The ground is cracked and barren as far as the eye can see and what few trees do exist are withered and dried like husks. The wind blows constantly, hot and arid, often full of ash from a fire of unknown origins. The creatures of this world are few and rarely show themselves. When they do, it is fast and vicious and then they disappear once more, whether they've captured their prey or not.

Kyoko can only use her bankai 3 times in one day. Furthermore, she is not immune to the attack of the creatures. The illusions can be broken if her eyes become incapacitated some way (i.e. dirt or blood in her eyes). The illusion can also be broken if she loses consciousness or if she has to use her reiatsu for any other reason. And the whole time she is in her bankai, she is still in battle with her opponent the whole time.

Kido: Kyoko has barely started learning the art, and thus cannot use any REAL Kido